[ic] With Interchange be careful who use as your provider!

[DB]

An interesting article from a friend of mine. We used this script to 
block attacks on an Interchange server. Worked great with Cloudflare's 
free plan.

https://www.vortech.net/blog/automating-cloudflares-under-attack-mode-with-a-linux-load-monitor-script

DB

On 8/24/25 5:37 PM, davideth--- via interchange-users wrote:
> I was having the DDoS issue a little over a month ago. The following is 
> what the technician decided was to be done. I told them NO! but they did 
> it anyhow!
> 
>  From robots.txt
> 
> Disallow: /home/.../.../cart.cgi
> Disallow: cart.cgi
> Disallow: /cart.cgi
> 
> 
> Had to fix
> 
> # Disallow: /home/.../.../cart.cgi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This 
> stops all robots from crawling the entire site It is a STUPID thing to 
> do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cart.cgi serves ALL pages
> # Disallow: cart.cgi             !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This stops 
> all robots from crawling the entire site It is a STUPID thing to 
> do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> # Disallow: /cart.cgi            !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This stops 
> all robots from crawling the entire site It is a STUPID thing to 
> do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
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